**A growing concern among U.S. lawmakers and food manufacturers that they’ll see the price of sugar go up if the sugar refining industry gets what it’s demanding from Mexico.A group of 51 House members has signed onto a letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross not to go through with some proposals l…

**The USDA’s latest cold storage report showed strong retail and export demand for meat.Pork was down 10% on the year, despite record pork production during March, including a 68% drop in bellies, and beef supplies were 4% lower, even after a 7% year to year increase in production la…

** Both sides found something to be happy about in a federal judge’s ruling in a class-action lawsuit seeking damages from lost sales and reduced prices resulting from China’s rejection of U.S. corn shipments.A U.S. District Judge in Kansas City rejected the basis for…